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How can you know how much you can trust what you are told by a prolife or prochoice organization's communications? How do you know if what a web site or newsletter says is accurate or not?
There is one easy rule to follow: Truthful sites provide reliable sources for their information.
As you look over the information on the Cemetery of Choice, you'll find that whenever possible, I provide either links to information or actual copies of documents such as news articles and death certificates. In other cases, I at least cite my sources in a way that they can be researched and verified.
Are other sources as reliable? Do they tell you where they got the information upon which they are basing their claims? If they don't, why not?
If there are conflicting claims, such as prolife versus prochoice assertions about the death of
Becky Bell
, check to see which site provides more reliable sources. In Becky's case, prochoice sites provide only assertions made by other abortion rights organizations or statements made by Becky's parents, who were recruited and coached by abortion-rights organizations. Prolife sites typically quote a crucial source: Becky's actual autopsy report,* which shows her reproductive organs to be perfectly healthy. Which sources can you trust?
Consider also the case of
Pauline Shirley
. Prochoice pages typically post the following unsubstantiated story verbatim:
Pauline Shirley and her six children were living with her mother in Arizona while her husband sought work in California. After an illegal abortion, she began to hemorrhage and was hospitalized. She needed massive transfusions. While Pauline’s mother searched the community for donors, Pauline bled to death.
I looked deeper and found an original and reliable source: Pauline's death certificate, which indicated that she died not from an induced abortion but from a miscarriage. Perhaps a family member saw "incomplete abortion, spontaneous" and didn't understand that a spontaneous abortion is the medical term for a miscarriage. My write-up of Pauline's death actually includes an image of the death certificate. Whose word is more trustworthy: the one based on the actual death certificate, or the unsubstantiated one repeated uncritically?
Never, never take anything you are told without question. Check the original sources.
*I read Becky Bell's autopsy report myself shortly after abortion-rights groups began taking them on speaking engagements around the country. I'm still trying to find an online copy and as soon as I find one I will share it, as I share my other sources.
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Deaths from safe, legal abortions, moving backward chronologically:
2011:
None noted yet.
2010:
Alexandra Nunez
2009:
Ying Chen
Karnamaya Mongar
2008:
None noted yet
2007:
Edrica Goode
Laura Hope Smith
2006:
Laura Grunas
"Wanda" Roe
2005:
Oriane Shevin
Christin Gilbert
"Cherish" Roe
"Tara" Roe
2004:
Tamiaa Russell
Chanelle Bryant
2003:
Leigh Ann Alford
Regina Johnson
Holly Patterson
Vivian Tran
2002:
Diana Lopez
"Adelle" Roe
Semika Shaw
Brenda Vise
Stacy Zallie
2001:
"Haley Mason"
2000:
L'Echelle Head
Kimberly Neil
Nicey Washington
1999:
"Yvonne" Roe
Shelby Moran
1998:
Tamika Dowdy
Lou Ann Herron
Kendra McLeod
Venus Ortiz
Virginia Wolfe
1997:
Maureen Espinoza
Jennifer Halner
Gracealynn Harris
Nichole Williams
1996:
Carolina Gutierrez
Sharon Hamptlon
Kelly Morse
Chivon Williams
Tanya Williamson
1995:
Lisa Bardsley
Linda Boom
1994:
Pamela Colson
Alerte Desanges
Jammie Garcia
Christine Mora
Sara Niebel
Magdalena Rodroguez
Ingrid Thomas
1993:
Andrea Corey
Jane Doe of Newark
Giselene Lafontant
Kathy McKnight
Guadalupe Negron
Angela Sanchez
1992:
Diane Adams
Deanna Bell
Arlin della Cruz
Susan Levy
Suzanne Logan
DaNette Pergusson
"Melissa" Roe
"Susan" Roe
Rhonda Rollinson
1991:
Colleen Chambers
Edith Cote
Anjelica Duarte
Angela Hall
Shirley Hollis
Dawn Mack
"Terri" Roe
Latachie Veal
1990:
Mary Ann Dancy
Christina Goesswein
Sophie McCoy
Sandra Milton
Angela Satterfield
Ingar Weber
1989:
Eurice Agbagaa
Charisse Ards
Brenda Banks
Marla Cardamone
Margaret Clodfelter
Glenda Davis
Synthia Dennard
Gladyss Estanislao
Glenna Jean Fox
Debra Gray
Karretu Jabbie
Catherine Pierce
Erica Kay Richardson
Debra Walton
1988:
Demetrice Andrews
K.B.
Junette Barnes
Teresa Causey
Erna Fisher
Dawn Mendoza
Denise Montoya
Joyce Ortenzio
Katrina Poole
Allegra Roseberry
Stacy Ruckman
Teresa Smith
Laura Sorrels
Tami Suematsu
1987:
Brenda Benton
Belinda Byrd
Kathy Davis
Elise Kalat
Patricia King
Myria McFadden
Michelle Thames
Iris Valazquez
Pamela Wainwright
Sheila Watley
Diane Watson
1986:
Gloria Aponte
Dorothy Brant
Janyth Caldwell
Claudia Caventou
Liliana Cortez
Carol Cunningham
Laniece Dorsey
Christella Forte
Donna Heim
Michelle Madden
Sylvia Moore
Jacqueline Reynolds
Luz Rodriguez
Rosael Rodriguez
Magnolia Thomas
Gail Wright
1985:
Mary Bradley
Joan Camp
Josefina Garcia
Kat
h
leen Gilbert
Gaylene Golden
Arnetta Hardaway
Debora
h Ann Lozinski
Yvonne Mestet
h
Yvette Poteat
Dawn Ravenell
Ellen Williams
1984:
Mickey Apodaca
Patricia C
hacon
Rita Goncalves
S
heila
Hebert
Sandra Kaiser
Loretta Morton
"Geraldine Newhart"
Mary Pena
Yvonne Tanner
Sandra Williams
1983:
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